casion, to mention faults ? which would . 'be likely to embitter the festivity, or to sketch so rough a picture of the beautiful and amiable. Continued the sage : 'A little inaccuracy in. sufeh a case can. do no harm.' 'Fair and ;graceful!'- echoed his op ponent. ? ''But suppose she is lame or blind— these praises would suit, her then with.: a vengeance. What, falsehood, and yet holy -writ. ' -Exodus xxiii. 7 charges us to keep ourselves from every untruth. ' ' ' But, ' ' rejoined Hillcl, ' ' picture to yourself the case of a friend ' of yours making : a very bad purchase, and : led away by' a sweet self-deception, rejoicing over 'it, and showing it to you with, com placent satisfaction. Would you daugh at him and. make sport -of ...his new posses sion? ? So if a poor bridegroom lias thus - happily deceived himself with, regard to - liis bride, why grieve his soul with your cold, exact criticism?'